Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021.

(2) These Regulations come into operation on 25th October 2021.

(3) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015( 4).

Amendment of Schedule 2

2.  In Schedule 2 (Countries or territories in respect of which the United Kingdom Government has entered into a reciprocal agreement) to the principal Regulations—

(a) for “Bosnia” substitute “Bosnia and Herzegovina”, and for “Macedonia” substitute “North Macedonia”;

(b) at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, insert “Faroe Islands”, “Ireland”, “Kosovo”, “Norway” and “Switzerland”; and

(c) omit “Armenia”, “Azerbaijan”, “Barbados”, “Belarus”, “Croatia”, “Georgia”, “Kazakhstan”, “Kyrgyzstan”, “Moldova”, “Russia”, “Tajikistan”, “Turkmenistan”, “Ukraine” and “Uzbekistan”.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (“the principal Regulations”) which make available, to visitors in Northern Ireland, certain health services under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 ( S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)), at a charge determined by the Department of Health.

Regulation 1 contains commencement, citation and interpretation provisions.

Regulation 2 amends Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations to add the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Kosovo, Norway and Switzerland to the list of countries and territories with which reciprocal health care arrangements have been concluded and makes other minor amendments to Schedule 2.

Regulation 2 also omits Armenia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belarus, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan from Schedule 2 to remove countries with which the United Kingdom no longer has reciprocal healthcare arrangements.